VividCortex - the New Face of Database Monitoring — VividCortex is the best way to see what is happening on your production servers. Unlike traditional monitoring, we measure and analyze the system’s work and resource consumption. This leads directly to better performance for IT as a whole, at reduced cost and effort.

Vivid Cortex sponsored

Data Has A Shape —
An interview with Gurjeet Singh, CEO of machine learning company Ayasdi, about using topology to uncover the ‘shape’ of your data.

RethinkDB 2.1 Released —
Includes automatic failover, ability to add and remove nodes from a cluster without any downtime, SSL access, and more.

RethinkDB

Making Postgres Bloom —
Bloom filters are a probabilistic data structure that are space efficient for membership queries in a set of data (at the cost of false positives). Here’s a walk through of recreating their functionality in Postgres.